Pairs

An interruption on the glowing grass,
a true basic reflection,
a hollow existence devoid of feeling.
And yet... How natural is seems.

For it is.

How unnecessary in the winter but useful
in the summer's sun.
It's always useful, this darkness.
When you can't yet look at the idea, see it through its shadow.
There's more there than you think.

Reaching out from below
laying down to say hello,
this is us.
Not our mirrors, our second selves
left to live unappreciated
in the dark.

Everything exists in pairs:
        Light and dark
        Day and night
        Girls and boys
        Land and sea

            My shadow and I